The Social Service Branch (SSB) of the city police on Saturday busted a sex racket that was operating from a posh housing society in Oshiwara. The police have arrested four persons, including an elderly woman, involved in the racket, and rescued three women involved in flesh trade.

Friday night saw the BMC-run Byculla zoo authorities and the police entangled in an absurd theft scenario, after it was reported that panache - plumage with some jewellery embedded in it - had been stolen from the crown of Baal Shivaji's statue at Rani Baug, or Jijamata Udyaan.

In what seems to be an act of making obscene MMSes and circulating them, the Malwani police are probing a case wherein a camera was found hidden in a public toilet in Malad recently. A woman who had gone to the toilet discovered it and informed the police.

In a case that has once again raised the issue of women's safety in the city, a 22-year old woman in a car was recently chased and abused by two men on a bike, who later even molested her in the middle of the road in Malad. A case has been registered with the Bangur Nagar police, who are yet to...

In a major twist, a Customs officer working at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) at Sahar has come under the scanner of the police department for his alleged involvement in the Mephedrone (M-Cat) racket case.

A recent move made by Legal Metrology Department will certainly bring smiles on the face of people seeking gold loan or selling gold. The LMD has asked those dealing in bullion markets and banks to get electronic weighing scales that can measure up to the lowest milligram. Currently, weighing...

A constable posted with the Special Branch (SB) of city police is under the scanner for his alleged visit to police constable Dharmaraj Kalokhe's Satara residence a few days before the latter's arrest. A consignment of 110 kg of drug was seized from Kalokhe's house. Police sources have...

Two arrests are likely to be made in the case wherein contraband drug was seized from the locker of constable Dharmaraj Kalokhe in Marine Drive police station. Police sources said while one who is to be arrested is a driver of drug dealer Baby Patankar, the other is a close relative of hers.